accommodation

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
  2. noun a settlement of differences
  3. noun in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

Etymology

From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.

In classic literature

Synonyms

adjustment, fitting

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